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APPLICATION FILED NOV.21,1907.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN W. CLARK, OF GHAMPLAIN, NEW YORK.

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Application filed November 21, 1907. Serial No. 403,106.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, JOHN W. CLARK, a citizen of the United States, residing at Champlain, in the county of Clinton and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Puzzles, of which the following is a specification.

The object of this invention is to furnish a new and useful puzzle or toy, the same involving the movement and relative arrangement of a number of disks or men which may be considered as representing a locomotive and several cars, along a straight track and a semi-circular, or arc-shaped track, communicating therewith.

In the accompanying drawing-Figure 1 is a plan View of the puzzle or toy, and Fig. 2 is a cross-section thereof, taken on line 22.

The embodiment of the invention illustrated comprises a base-plate 10, which, for convenience, is or may be contained in a box 12, having a sliding cover 13, said base plate being oblong in shape and having a straight groove or track 14 cut in its upper surface parallel to and adjacent to one of its longer sides, and a semi-circular or arc-shaped groove or track 15 of equal depth cut in its upper surface and communicating at both its ends with said straight groove 14. The sideedges of these grooves are-undercut, as indicated at 16 in Fig. 2, so that the disks or men may be slid along said grooves but not be re movable from the same, except at the ends of the straight track when the base-plate is removed from the box. These disks or men are five in number and of different colors, and adjacent to the edges of the grooves are marks of corresponding colors, indicating the normal positions of the disks. Thus the curved groove or track 15 has adjacent its edge one red mark, one white mark and one blue mark, while the straight groove or track 14 has adjacent its edge, beyond the point where one end of the curved groove or track 15 enters it, one yellow mark and one green mark, as shown.

In Fig. 1 the disks are shown in their initial positions, there being a red disk 1, a white disk 2 and ablue disk 3 in the curved groove or track 15 opposite the similarly colored marks, respectively, and a yellow disk 4 and a green disk 5, respectively, in the end-portion of the straight groove or track 14,0pposite the similarly-colored marks there.

The game or puzzle consists in so manipulating the disks or men, using the yellow disk Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. s, 1908.

of movements:-1. Take the yellow, enter the siding at A, pull the blue out and push it to B and leave it there; 2. Return with the yellow to A and enter siding taking the white out and pushing it to C, where it is left. 3. Then slide the yellow back to A through the siding and push the red out at D and leave it at E. 4. Then take the yellow through the siding to the green, which is taken into siding at A and left at the white spot. 5. Then through siding to D and back to the white at C, pushing it down and leaving it at the green spot. 6. Then through siding at A to the green at the white spot, which is pulled out of the siding at A and pushed to C and there left. 7. Then back to A through siding to the red at E which is pulled into siding at D and left at red spot. 8. Then back through siding at A to the green at C, which is taken to A and pushed on the siding to the white spot and there left. 9. Then back to A and down to the blue at B, which is taken to A and pushed ontothe siding to the blue spot, and left there. 10. The yellow is then backed out at A and left at the yellow spot.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is In a puzzle, the combination with a base having a straight groove and a curved groove communicating therewith, the former having two stations indicated by colors near one end thereof and the curved groove having three stations indicated by different colors near the center thereof, of five disks slidable in said grooves and colored to correspond to said stations respectively, for the purpose and object described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of tWo subscribing witnesses.

JOHN W. CLARK.

Witnesses:

GEORGE H. DUDLEY, L. C. LAFONTAINE. 

